Alert!

[Proud Prepper]

There's a lot going on in the world from Syria/Russia to N.Korea/China as well as Economic and world currency movements. There is much chatter about things escalating. Be prepared and keep informed of world news. I'll update with details when I get confirmations. May God bless us all.

Rellgar, warrior prepper

 

[bigpaul]

take it easy, most of this is just sabre rattling for home consumption.

 

[Maverick]

Repeatedly thinking of such things is unhealthy physically and emotionally, aware yes worry no. Worrying does nothing but cause a form of depression and in some cases paranoia. Though with whats going on today makes me long for the early days of the cold war pre-perestroika where we only had three nuts with far reaching dangerous toys, now we have a world full of crazies with dangerous toys *sigh

 

[bigpaul]

wife's parents moved out of Leeds with 2 small children(wife was born later in Devon) and moved to a cottage in East Devon in the mid 1940s because they thought a nuclear war was coming, so don't tell me prepping is a modern thing!!

 

[Maverick]

wife's parents moved out of Leeds with 2 small children(wife was born later in Devon) and moved to a cottage in East Devon in the mid 1940s because they thought a nuclear war was coming, so don't tell me prepping is a modern thing!!

Prepping certainly isn't a modern thing, prepping always been with us since the dawn of human, since the start of the cold war the Government encouraged individual preparedness with support of the media though today the Government cut back its rhetoric and the media calls us nuts oh how times have changed. I learned not worry about such things after I seen my mom's health decline a bit worrying about us kids

Though Paul, who said prepping is a modern thing?

 

[grayghost668]

I try not to worry about things I can do nothing about

 

[Rob Painless]

Probably no big deal, but, I know a couple of guys who got a recall (to active service) letter from uncle sam today.

 

[bigpaul]

Prepping certainly isn't a modern thing, prepping always been with us since the dawn of human, since the start of the cold war the Government encouraged individual preparedness with support of the media though today the Government cut back its rhetoric and the media calls us nuts oh how times have changed. I learned not worry about such things after I seen my mom's health decline a bit worrying about us kids

Though Paul, who said prepping is a modern thing?

not me, my parents were preppers although the term wasn't invented back then, always had a full pantry, had to, no supermarkets back then.

 

[jeager]

What we call "prepping" was a way of daily routine when I was a kid. At least in my family.
Dad born in 1914 recalls the great depression and his combat in WWII quite well.
Dad and mom grew up in the foot hills of S.W. Penn. and both grew up raising
beef, milk cows, chickens, etc, and canning, smoking, drying, even foraging for foods.
I HATED doing those things when I was a kid and other kids made fun of us because those
kids didn't do those things.
Now I appreciate all I learned.
When I as young I was amazed at how stupid dad was.
Now I realize just how SMART he really was.
He didn't hunt much, rarely went fishing, never trapped furs but gave me 100% free access to
all that.
I learned on my own but without objection from my dad.
Fact is he bought me my first s.g. a bold action .410 single shot then later
a pump 20 gauge Mossberg.
I took a LOT of small game with those shotguns including ducks.
No one told me a .410 was too small for waterfowl so I went on my merry way taking
ducks with a .410 and later a single shot 20 gauge.
Lead shot was legal then.
Eventually I got a Remington 870 in 28 gauge and knocked the heck out of woodies
flushing off small rivers and creeks.
Woodies are so beautiful it's almost a shame to harvest them.

How beautiful.

Now I wish I had one mounted for posterity.

 

[jeager]

By the way. Wild waterfowl is not greasy.
That's tame duck for the market that is very greasy.
Wild duck is quite dry and I roasted 'em with a strip or two of bacon to keep 'em a little
less dry.
Just f.y.i.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Now I'm hungry for roast duck.
Think I'll go to market and find me one.
I'm quite a good cook ya know.
Handy skill.

 

[Rob Painless]

That was a tremendously great post, Jeager. I'm blessed to still have my dad around, he turned 84 in March, and reading that really put me in mind of him.

Now I appreciate all I learned.
When I as young I was amazed at how stupid dad was.
Now I realize just how SMART he really was.

Mark Twain, in one of his books wrote " I was amazed at how much my father learned from the time I was 14 till I turned 22". Or, perhaps more accurately......"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

 

[Maverick]

What we call "prepping" was a way of daily routine when I was a kid.

That's pretty much how I was raised and continue to this day, the live stock, garden, canning, foraging, hunting/fishing and food stocking is all pretty much seasonal preparations. I have a cabin 70 miles away that I marked as my BOL, we have volcanoes, earthquakes, wildland fires, slides and floods (below me) I don't need to concern myself with world events to prepare for when I'm surrounded by potential local events that is more urgent and more likely to occur either way I'm prepared to a certain level or at least I hope I am but I'll never be at the level I would like. I'm always evolving and changing out equipment

 

[Brent S]

You could never be prepared for everything life could throw at you. Just by covering some of the more likely things you are allready better off than 90% of the population though. Everyone needs a hobby in life. I'm glad that prepping and homesteading is mine as at least it's a productive and positive.